1. ARUNA SRINIVASAN
SKILLS SUMMARY
Enriched IT experience with Tata Consultancy Services Ltd in the complete spectrum of systems and
application development cycle, including requirement gathering, system design, application development,
enhancement, deployment, maintenance and support, project coordination and management activities.
KEY QUALIFICATIONS
 Excellent experience in project coordination activities such as scheduling the meeting, preparing the
agenda for the meeting, jotting down the minutes and distribution of meeting minutes, tracking issues
and following up of the issues, facilitating status reporting meetings, preparation of status reports and
distribution of the same.
 Excellent experience in project defect data analysis, collection of defect data, providing improvement
suggestions and creating checklists to promote continuous improvement of deliverable quality.
 Very good experience in facilitating awareness sessions on Quality, creating documentation for the
team to follow quality related activities.
 Successfully organized trainings for freshers and experienced team members.
 Excellent experience in authoring and maintaining the Project plans, preparation assisting for Project
Management review presentations, facilitating Project Management Reviews and town hall meetings.
 Excellent experience in Feasibility Study, Requirements Analysis and processes such as Defect
Prevention, conducting Final Inspections and audits, Brainstorming, Root Cause Analysis and following
up till defect closure.
 Very good ability to multitask, handling development and project coordination successfully, ensuring the
effective meeting of deadlines and handling priorities effectively.
 Very good experience in MS Products and have successfully documented and maintained Project
Plans, test plans, specs, Metrics to be followed, checklist, standards and guidelines for coding,
dashboards, project milestones, Minutes of meeting, Traceability matrix and project schedules, charts,
pivot tables using MS Word, Excel, Power point and VISIO.
 Actively involved in various initiatives for stress relief and recreational activities.
 Good experience in leading technical resources for the development and implementation of complex
systems requiring multiple interfaces
 Excellent experience in coordinating configuration management audits and related exercises.
 Excellent experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including initial
conception through final implementation on Waterfall/ agile models.
 Very good experience in Task Management and effective Time Management activities
 Very good experience in facilitating CMM level activities, conducting awareness sessions on six sigma-
DMAIC principles.
 Excellent experience as a DP Prime (Defect Prevention), checking the projects for the following of
audits, conducting Final Inspections and audits, facilitating Brain Storming sessions for the projects,
producing test plans and ensuring defect logging, performing Root Cause Analysis for the defects and
following up till closure of the defects.
 Good experience with user interaction, creating user manuals and imparting user trainings and day to
day application support.
 Metrics collection and reporting, providing status reports to the Management
 Expertise in creating VISIO documents depicting system interfaces and functionalities in the current
system
 Good experience in managing documents using Sharepoint
 Extensive experience in Tracking workflow and project status by using Traceability Matrix, Milestone
setting, planning and distributing work among team members, and conducting status meetings,
preparing the minutes of meeting and arriving at a follow up plan.
 Excellent experience in the design and development of complex applications.

2. TECHNICAL SKILLS
 MS WORD
 MS ACCESS
 MS EXCEL
 MS PROJECT
 VISIO
 MS OFFICE
 Share Point
 WINDOWS NT/XP
 ISO9001
 IBM mainframes
EXPERIENCE
SEGA INTER SETTLE - Zurich, Switzerland
Cross Functional TeamMember
Feb 2001 – Oct 2003
The Corporate Action Enhancement Services was developed for providing enhanced services for the users to
facilitate the transactions and the corporate actions taking place. This project involved design of new screens.
New Online transactions were also created. Risk Management for XClear and Central Counter Party is a
development project in which risks for the CCB and Xclear were identified when a deal is made. Programs
were developed to manage these risks. Mutual Offshore Fund is a project about the offshore funds. A new sub
module was created for this project with new online programs, transactions, reports and screens.
 Analyzed the functional specifications and processes, developed system flow charts using VISIO and
generated technical specifications
 Adhered to software development lifecycle (SDLC) standards, including top-down design, hierarchical
diagramming, structured code, and structured walk through
 Conducted code walk-thru and technical design reviews
 Created technical design specifications adhering to the functional specifications
 Taking down the meeting minutes and preparing Minutes of Meeting
 Managed the defect log and updated the management on the status
 Developed programs and interface modules for backend and front end processing
 Designed and developed application code using IBM mainframes.
 Involved in project documentation.
 Assisting in presentations
 Facilitating the trainings
 Attending Project Management Reviews
 Involved in Stress Relief Activities
 Involved in Analysis, Coding, and Unit Testing of the impacted modules; prepared test plans, and
test data for unit testing.
 Prepared unit test cases and test data; conducted unit testing and integration testing
 Involved in User Acceptance testing
Environment: WINDOWS, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, IBM mainframes
BANK OF AMERICA - Concord, CA
Software Quality Assurance Analyst/ QA Coordinator
Oct 2003 – Mar 2004

3. Bank of America, headquartered in Charlotte is one of the largest banks in the world, providing several
products and services to its customers. DPTST is a project, which deals with Deposit Products and
Transaction Services Technology. The CMM activities were done for this division.
 Facilitating the CMM activities
 Assisting in presentations
 Attending Project Management Reviews
 Conducting Final Inspections, Audits and Reviews
 Preparing Standards for the team to follow
 Organizing the documents of the Project based on their confidentiality
 Facilitating Team meetings, preparing Minutes of Meeting, status reports and following up with action
points
 Facilitating trainings for the team members on causal analysis and CMM levels.
 Standardizing the process across the team by creating standards reference documents, checklists and
guidelines
 Establishing processes and metrics jointly with core/ enabling process owners
 Conducting awareness sessions on Quality Assurance, Defect Prevention and Root Cause Analysis
among the team.
 Coaching and training the team on six-sigma DMAIC principles on a regular basis
 Attended team meetings to understand and capture the areas of improvement in the Software Process.
Environment: VISIO, MS WORD, MS EXCEL and WINDOWS
WORLDSPAN - Kansas, MO
TeamCoordinator
Mar 2004 – Feb 2007
The system provides the data collection point for the orders placed by the customers, details of the customers
and the infrastructure provided by Worldspan. Complete process flow from placing an order to the billing is
executed with the help of this application.
 Provided technical leadership and offshore resource coordination for successful execution of the project
 Coordinated and attended user meetings to understand and capture user requirements
 Conducted requirement feasibility analysis
 Analyzed existing legacy application and identified modules, interfaces and components
 Analyzed existing system, prepared and updated System Appreciation Documents
 Created Requirements Analysis and Functional Specification documents
 Performed Impact Analysis and identified software modification requirements
 Created project plans and provided schedule tracker
 Facilitating Team meetings, Onsite/ Offshore meeting, preparing Minutes of Meeting, status reports and
following up with action points
 Prepared presentations
 Facilitated and attended Project Management Reviews
 Involved in facilitating Stress Relief Activities for team members
 Used CMM practices to ensure compliance with the project processes and quality of deliverables from
the development team
 Provided training and awareness sessions on Defect Prevention techniques
 Involved in Code Reviews, peer reviews, inter project reviews, reviews of Project Plans and other
technical documents.
 Conducted Final Inspection for projects, audits and follow up on NCRs and FI open points till the non-
conformance closure.
 Prepared Standards, checklist and templates for Technical documents, Codes, test plans, test results
logging, SharePoint to store documents, Final Inspections, audits and Project Management Reviews
and procedure to follow from startup to finish of the projects.

4.  Document Management using Sharepoint
 Conducted number of training and awareness sessions on Quality Assurance, audits, FIs and Defect
Prevention.
 Facilitated all activities related to Defect Prevention. Took over as a DP Prime for the center
consolidating all the defect logs across projects, bringing all the DP contact for the projects together
and involving in Brain Storming sessions and finding the Root cause Analysis of the defects and
arriving at prevention techniques to remove the future occurrences of defects.
 Performing the tasks related to Quality Assurance to ensure the quality of the deliverables
 Developed batch interface modules using IBM Mainframes.
 Prepared Test Plans and performed code changes and unit testing
 Utilized debugging tools for software debugging
 Utilized Changeman as the library management system
 Provided post-implementation support and analysis. Incorporated scope changes
 Prepared adhoc reports on need basis for user queries and requests
Environment: VISIO, MS Excel, MS Word, SharePoint, IBM Mainframes
MORGAN STANLEY SMITH BARNEY – New York, NY
Project Coordinator
May 2008 – Dec 2008
The Objective of statement business rule analysis is to analyze the legacy complex statement stream to find
out the business rules involved to generate the client statement.
 Project Planning
 Gathering the requirements for Analysis, Design and Development
 Analyzed existing legacy application and identified sub-systems, modules, interfaces and components
 Framed the business rules
 Estimating the efforts and arriving at milestones
 Created system design documentation and detailed design documents
 Created VISIO documents depicting system interfaces and functionalities in the current system
 Document Management using Sharepoint
 Project monitoring and execution
 Coordinating the offshore team by holding status meetings, brainstorming sessions, trainings and
mentoring
 Facilitating Team meetings, preparing Minutes of Meeting, status reports and following up with action
points
 Prepared presentations
 Facilitated and imparted training on software techniques
 Facilitated and attended Project Management Reviews
 Metrics collection and reporting, providing status reports to the Management
 Workflow tracking using ultimatix
 Responsible for quality of the deliverables
 Prepared and reviewed test plans and testing methodologies
 Analyzing Statement reports and suggesting changes in the application and monitoring them
Environment: VISIO, MS Excel, MS Word, SharePoint, IBM Mainframes
MORGAN STANLEY SMITH BARNEY - New York, NY
Project Coordinator
Dec 2008 – May 2010
The objective of Statement renovation is to source the client statement data from a real time system. The
current statement process is accumulating data from over 100 applications on a daily, weekly & monthly basis.

5. The current system was over 30 years old and the complexity of the system is very high. The cost involved in
maintaining the current system was very high and time consuming.
 Project Planning and assist in authoring the Project Plan
 Gathering the requirements for Analysis, Design and Development
 Estimating the efforts and arriving at milestones
 Created system design documentation and detailed design documents
 Created VISIO documents depicting system interfaces and functionalities in the current system
 Document Management using Sharepoint
 Project monitoring and execution
 Coordinating the offshore team by holding status meetings, brainstorming sessions, trainings and
mentoring
 Facilitating Team meetings, preparing Minutes of Meeting, status reports and following up with action
points
 Prepared the presentations
 Facilitated and attended Project Management Reviews
 Provided technical leadership and offshore management for successful execution of the project
 Metrics collection and reporting, providing status reports to the Management
 Workflow tracking using ultimatix
 Responsible for quality of the deliverables
 Prepared and reviewed test plans and testing methodologies
 Analyzed huge volume of data for mapping
 Analyze, design and develop Batch programs using IBM mainframe utilities
 Utilized Changeman as the Change management system
 Provided support for Implementation for major and minor releases all throughout the year.
 Analyzing Statement reports and suggesting changes in the application and monitoring them
Environment: VISIO, MS Excel, MS Word, SharePoint, IBM Mainframes
DHAYA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL – Tansi Nagar, Velachery, Chennai
School Coordinator
Jan 2015 – Nov 2015
 Uploading Daily Attendance and activities for the day in the school app.
 Tracking Absentees and homework
 Assigning work to the teachers, tracking by conducting weekly status meetings
 Preparing minutes of meeting and status reports
 Reviewing the artifacts
 Facilitated training for the teachers on the usage of app and the smart classes
 Providing status report to the management
 Point of contact for parents and general public
 Point of contact for admissions
 Responsible for timely collection of fees
 Responsible for sending reminders, alerts and intimations through the school app
 Served as a liaison between parents/ teachers and management
 Planned, organized and facilitated various events

6. SENSIPLE – Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
Associate Manager
Dec 2015 – till date
Sensiple is a global leader in consulting and Information Technology Services. Head quartered in United
States-New Jersey with its offices in Singapore and India. Since 1999, Sensiple enables clients to outperform
the competition and stay ahead of the business curve by offering services in Banking, Financial Services,
Healthcare, Retail and Logistics.
 Project monitoring through status reports
 Resource allocation and tracking
 Managing the requisite resource for the projects
 Conducting periodic meetings with COEs of the projects
 Following up on the issues and health check the projects
 Ensuring Quality processes to be adhered
 Facilitating Team meetings, preparing Minutes of Meeting, status reports and following up with action
points
 Preparing the management presentations
 Facilitated and attended Project Management Reviews
 Metrics collection and reporting, providing status reports to the Management
 Competency building
 Delivery governance
Environment: MS Office
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering - Madurai Kamaraj University (2000)
PERSONAL DETAILS
Email id: aruna.ds@gmail.com
Contact#: 9003114141